Autres citations de Marcel Proust sur ce thème:
"Parfois dans cette vie, sous le stress d'une émotion exceptionnelle, les gens disent ce qu'ils pensent." / "Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think." / "A veces en esta vida, bajo el estrés de una emoción excepcional, las personas dicen lo que piensan."
"Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth."
"You can’t learn the truth about a man’s intentions by asking him."
"Le mensonge est essentiel à l'humanité. Il y joue peut-être un aussi grand rôle que la recherche du plaisir, et d'ailleurs est commandé par cette recherche." / "Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit." / "Las mentiras son esenciales para la humanidad. Son quizás tan importantes como la búsqueda del placer y, además, están dictados por esa búsqueda."
"It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying."
"Le temps passe, et peu à peu tout ce que nous avons dit dans le mensonge devient vrai." / "Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true." / "El tiempo pasa, y poco a poco todo lo que hemos hablado en falsedad se vuelve verdad."
"Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying."
"There is in woman something of the unconscious function of drugs which are cunning without knowing it, like morphine."
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D'autres pensées de Marcel Proust, se lisent ici:
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/wawa/blog/200321/marcel-proust
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